New York City and Mexico City
Columnist and editorial board member
Education: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, BA in physics; Imperial College of Science Technology and Medicine, MS in quantum fields and fundamental forces
Eduardo Porter was born in Phoenix and grew up in the United States, Mexico and Belgium. He came to The Washington Post following a year as a columnist at Bloomberg Opinion and nearly two decades at the New York Times, where he was a member of the editorial board and wrote the Economic Scene column from 2012 to 2018.
Eduardo began his career in journalism in 1991 as a financial reporter for Notimex, a Mexican news agency, in Mexico City. He spent four years as Notimex’s correspondent in Tokyo and London and, in 1996, moved to São Paulo, Brazil, as editor of América Economía, a business magazi
